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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 805 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PLATFORM (Fr. plateforme, i.e. ground plan)  , a word now generally confined to a raised flat structure or stage, temporary or permanent, erected in a
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building or in the open air, from which speeches, addresses, lectures, &c., can be delivered at a public cr other meeting . Similar structures of wood, brick or stone, are used in railway stations at such a level above the rails as to enable passengers to have easy access to the carriages; and in fortification the word is used of the raised level
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surface on which guns are mounted . The earlier uses of the word, such as for a
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plane geometrical figure, the ground plan of a building, and figuratively, for a plan, design, scheme, &c., are now obsolete .

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